Bricklayer&#39;s jointer



C.BELKNAP BRICKLAYER'S JOINTER Filed April 21, 1925 INVENTOR 9 f I g i v Char/q; be/lrnap Patented Jan.

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Application filed April 21, 1925.

'1 '0 oil whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES citizen of the United States,

Burlington,

and useful hereby clear, and exact enable others ski The invention bricklayer to between bricks 7 1n the county of State of lVashing-ton, have BRICKLAYERS JOINTER.

BELKNAP, a residing at Skagit and invented a new Bricklayers Join declare that the following is a full,

ter; and I do specification, such as will lled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

is a device for enabling a rake mortar f rom the joint and thereby smooth or strike the joint.

The object of the inve a simple and efficient bricklayers to rake or tween bricks or the like.

Another ob vide a tool of provided with nlio-n is to provide device for enabling strike the oint beect of the invention is to prothe class described which is double shoes so that any mortar left by one shoe will be removed by the other.

And a further 1 to provide a tool for object of the invention is bricklayers which is of a simple and economical construction.

lVith these ends in vie bodies a tool having tw with other or f handle which is limit the distance joint.

Other features scription taken in W the invention em- 0 shoes, one in line ollowing the other and a constructed so that it will the shoes may pass into a and advantages of the invention Wlll appear from the following deconnection with the draw side elevation of the tool. a plan view.

In the drawings I have shown my device as it would be 1 indicates the constructed wherein numeral handle, numeral 2 the forward shoe and numeral 3 the rear or followmg shoe.

The entire too with the ends be bent vertically to bent outwardly l is made of a single bar nt to form the shoes, then form sections 4 and 5, then o form sections 6 and then bent rearwardly to form the and 7, bars 8 and 9 which form the handle and which are provided with a flattened loop 10 to provide a small here. The bars ward at the pom amount of spring 8 and 9 are t 11 as show between the memalso bent upn in Flgure 1.

Serial No. 24,718.

It will be observed that the shoe 2 is curved and beveled at the point 12 and the shoe 3 is curved and beveled at the point 13 which is on the opposite side to that of the point 12 on the shoe 2. This will provide means for locating the device in the joint as the beveled surface 12 will strike the edge of the joint if the device is placed against this side of the joint and the beveled surface 13 will engage the opposite side if the de vice is placed against the opposite side.

It will be understood that changes may be made in the construction without departing from the spirit of the invention, one of design, handle the shoes will joint may be varied.

The construction may be readily understood from the foregoing description. To use the device, the handle may be held in the right hand and the shoes may be placed at the far side of the joint and pulled toward the person using the device. It will be observed that the first shoe comes into 001% tact with the brick on one side of the joint, thereby cleaning away the mortar that falls and the motartha-t is left will be caught by the secondshoe which will engage the brick on the opposite side, thereby providing a clean, smooth joint.

Having thus fully described the invention what claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is g 1. In a tool of the class described two rectangular shaped shoes arranged so that one follows the otheigeach of said shoes having beveled toes and one of said toes being curved on one the opposite corner, a handle for supportand means on said handle for limiting the distance the said shoes may extend into a groove or the like.

2. In a bricklayers jointer, two shoes formed of rectangular shaped bars with beveled toes, and one of said toes curved on one side and the other on the opposite side, vertical posts extending upward from the heel of the said shoes, horizontal bars e2;-

tending outward from the tops of the posts,

then backward to a common point and in a line parallel to the base of the shoes and then angularly upward to form a handle,

5 and said bars being joined with a spring loop a at the upper end of the handle.

3. In a jointer of the class described a pair of shoes formed of rectangudar shaped bars With beveled toes curved at their opposite corner, a handle, and means for connecting m the shoes to the handle, said connecting means forming a sto to limit the distance tlie shoe may exten into a groove or the li (e.

CHARLES BELKNAP. 

